An idea for a new game

[dooms102]

so yeah, let me just start off with, I am actually going to make a game and finish it using this storyline or one of your suggestions unlike most people who do only a little bit. just thought you should know I am serious.

Anyway... my last game was a reck, cause after I made it. It looked pretty damn good, but lacked altoghether a storyline. So I thought maybe I should have a storyline. Because I've learned that nomatter how cool anything is (programming, music, effects, graphics ect.) an RPG needs a storyline. So how do you like this:

the game starts you off in heaven as an average angel (don't worry the game doesn't incorprate any religon BS) you wake up one morning on an average day. You go out of your house and talk to the other angels who could also teach you a few controlls of the game, then after you talk to everyone you walk back to your house and go to sleep. Suddenly you wake up in the middle of the night as god's messenger tells you that god has urgent news. So you go to him and the town is all quite and dark. He tells you, the 7 countries of middle earth(it isn't actually called middle earth but it is in the same setting and mood) have formed alliances and are fighting for complete control of this world. He warns you that this was his last prophecy and the appocolypse must begin. but he has learned that there are two anciant and powerful stones that control and balance good and evil across the land. The Lunar and Solar stones, each in an ancient temple on each end of the world. After learning this he has decided to give you a human form so you can retrieve the stones and bring them back. You must do this while the appocolypse is beginning, becuase the war has been rageing too long.

so what do you think? The game will be on a massive scale, I have already desinged the entire world it is about 10 maps by 15 maps (I know that's a $h!t load but i got the time) and the maps will be 100 tiles by 100 tiles A.K.A. alot. ALL the graphics on the game are from the community of RPGTK and so is the audio. All i do is programming and create items, charaters, maps, $h!t like that. Don't get too exited all I have done is organize and plan. But I want a good storyline first though so? what do you think?

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the stones are supposed to make the world all happy and good, but god drops them off at opposite sides of the world and expects the player to bring them back when things get all shitty?

[Akura_TDB]

Yeah, that sounds about right. The standard needlessly-difficult-quest-to-save-world-that-the-divine-entity-that-sends-you-could-do-with-a-wave-of-their-hand type of thing.

[Dude Man]

I kinda like it. It's a little cliché, but you know the trend these days is to embrace it. Razz

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xavier wrote an article about it so it must be okay

[Dude Man]

Oh of cource. If Emporer Vampz Xavier says it, we must follow!

[seveneternal]

Indeed. All hail EMPORER VAMPZ XAVIER!

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[dooms102]

Um, guys thanks for posting but... do you guys have anyother suggestions, plus I can't really tell if any of you actually like it... so can you be a little more clear.
thanx

[Dude Man]

Well here's what's wrong with it, in my opinion.

1) You play as angel. Angels can be cool, but personally I don't think they make good heroes, that one NES game where you played as that one angel Pit, really stunk.

2) You need to give more info on these alliances.

3) Middle Earth. The Lord of the Rings was possibly the most tedious movie series, I've seen. And the books are too long for me to even think about reading. Also the fact that you're having the place based entirely on middle earth is pretty unoriginal.

[dooms102]

Ok, thnx.
Well I was thinking about completly reversing my idea. um... how about instead of you working as an angel (because angels aren't exactly bad-ass...) You are so on your own kinda of guy who likes to be bad-ass and he's all tough no love sorta person. And the devil tells to retrive the stones and the devil gives him all sorts of bad-ass demon powers and such. and you can go all undetected by god, becuase he's distracted by all the wars and shit like that.

Oh and the alliance thing. um well... just like our world is now, pretty much there's a couple main super powers (ex: America, G-Britian... etc.) and there isn't any territories or frontiers other than the poles (but who cares about that) left to conquer. Anyways back to the Alliances:
1. over hundreds of years 7 great super powers of the world have formed, and taken over every last peice of land.
2. they are all equal in there abilities and power. (that means they all have a major weakness and a major power that balances them all out, ex: 1 of them could have little land, but large mountian s throughout thier land that only they can tread... stuff like that.)
3. they have formed a few alliances, which will be brocken and new ones will form causing all sorts of trouble for you (ex: you become friends with a country and they protect you from another country... all the sudden they form an alliance with that country and now they won't protect you.) note: you become friends with countries by doing jobs for them like assasination and espionage. also you can become an enemy with countries by kill one of thier guards (or one of thier civilians or farmers ect...) or doing a job for one of thier enemys.
4. your status with a country effects both your status with thier allies and thier enemys.

[dooms102]

it seems that this topic is dead.... quite unfortunate because no one posted after my last story update... a shame....

[Dude Man]

Cool, but the whole 'deal with the devil this' is pretty over used. Maybe you could have one of the bad ass angels.

But do whatever you want I guess. I'm just one guy with an opinion.

[dooms102]

thanks maybe I'll have an angel who goes bad or something....

[D. Ein]

The damndest thing: you said that it doesn't incorporate religion, and yet the concepts of God, the Devil, and angels are specifically Christian.

I say you drop the whole idea of angels and demons. Just go with regular, non-religious stuff. Have some hardcore demon endanger the earth, or an industrial megalomaniac with a doomsday device, or a cult or something... It isn't that religious games are bad, it's just that they usually fail. Take a look at Apocalyptica - read any review about it, and it will have a score less than half on that reviewer's scale.

[Dude Man]

What about Doom? It has a lot of references to Hell, and it's gotten great reviews and has a huge fan base. Yet it still has some controversies.